Enjoy Your Retirement, Eddie!

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Good Morning, everyone! Double ditto to Eddie! Love today’s foto. And DDD and mom shared AJ’s second installment with us. Sheesh! ML,be strong and grab 2 young lookers to escort you 🙂
Have a swinging Saturday.

My sickie from Austin got here after one this a.m. She has been in the shower since I got up, so no report on how she is feeling.

HOH this is for you. “I stayed up all night to see where the sun went. Then it dawned on me”

Today is going to be beautiful, with lovely tributes to a wonderful man and I expect to be told MANY times how special he was. Everyone this week seems to have a Rick story. Thank you all for being with us in spirit today. The Fire Department procession leaves the funeral home at 10 CDT and the service at the church begins at 11.

AJ, Thank you for part 2. Rio Jr. must be quite a character…lots of spirit.
Once again I was holding my breath as I read it and my ribs started hurting. That was brutal.
(whispering) I might have thrown up my paws in defeat and scratched.

Siber-H; I did put my hand under cold water immediately. I used cold gel packs all night. I also remembered that I had some gel that contains silver that I’ve used for healing skin scraps, etc so I applied some of that. This morning the burn is still pink but much less pain and no blisters.

ML: With you and your family today. Remember…cry if you need to, be tough if you have to. Feel our love surrounding you and your family

And another annoyance is people that think you have to use an ‘ anytime you are using a plural, such as family’s instead families. Barb got a note from her Crazy Lady boss every week when she was doing ads: Please send Photo’s. Hiss and boo!

Finally – at long last, today was a sunny, blue sky day. It was glorious. We all sat out on the deck, stretched out in the sun. We loved it, especially since it is supposed to rain for the next 4 days.

The Storyteller says thanks for all your good thoughts. He is doing well and he enjoyed being out in the sun too. We think it was just too long of a winter.

And the phoebes are building their nest of Callie fur again. Yippee – spring is actually going to get here.

Ugh!…We are all finally home from my other house…wheeze!…Someone here is walking bent-over and it’s not her mother…snort!…She says she was bent over digging out grout in the kitchen and then bent over mopping floors and bent over painting wood work and bent over picking up stuff. So now she can’t straighten up quite right…grunt!groan!

Flipit!…Heh!…When we got home there was a package for us. It is an awesome birthday card flipit style!….chuffle!…It is so cool how lots of you signed it and some even put their stamp on it…heh!heh!…My friend thinks it is very awesome and she told me to thank all of youse who signed it…snorkel!…Except for Alice, I am not thanking Alice…sneeze!

Rio: It’s a good thing you are there to supervise. There is no telling what two-leggeds will get themselves into without proper supervision from our kind. Take the the Giant for example. Without Tenzing or Luna keeping a close eye on his dietary needs, he would never know that he should share the what’s-left-at-the-bottom of his vanilla ice cream bowl.

OMYDAWG!….He got out of the inning without the Giants scoring 3 runs. The bases were loaded, you know….gasp!….Rockies are ahead by one ta nuthin’ ….snort!…Ninth inning coming up – we need some runs and BAD…gruffle!

Supper!…Now someone who is bent-over has to go make supper….snort!…Someone else over-did it today and is in bed. My friend tried to tell her not to do so much but did she listen? NO…grunt!….Now mother is paying for it…wuffle!…Back later after good eats!

Hmmm. Looks like the Turtleman is enjoying his Chet and Bernie reading marathon. That is his (female) turtle Fred up top. Fred laid an egg and hatched a baby so that is how he discovered Fred was a her.

I had two beautiful days in the sunshine and pool while looking at the snowy ski trails. Just heavenly. I met up with Jay and Tyb and my goodness that Tyb is busy as usual with his charities. Good dog!

Next, a member of the Fire Dept honor guard carried the flag case containing Rick’s remains to the engine.
It is much larger than I imagined and will not sit inconspicuously on the mantle.
Once they had Rick on the engine, we began the procession. I was in Rick’s blue truck with Rick’s Knife Shop across the back window. I think many people pulled over because of a fire engine with its lights only to realize that there was quite a line behind it, and that was only family, plus the rest of the fire vehicles. When we got to the freeway overpass, some people were trying to hang a large flag over the side, but high winds were giving them trouble. People further back reported that it eventually got done.

These are the flowers sent by the department. I did not get a picture of the ones that we ordered, but I will pick them up at the church tomorrow. They were so pretty, bird-of-paradise, daisies, yellow roses and more. Just perfect.

Tomorrow we are going to take the FD flowers out to my dad’s grave. He was so proud to have a firefighter son-in-law.
(and that is my Niki to the right) 4 was Rick’s ID number. He was the third person hired by the department, in 1975.

Dawson!…Snort!…Tax Day…grunt!…I can’t believe that Liz has a birthday almost the same as me!…wuffle!…Now we know 5 guys who have birthdays on 12, 14, 15, and 16th of April – I just need to find a 13th guy…sneeze!

ML we here are very impressed with the ceremony for your dear husband. It is so nice to have that kind of validation of his life. Hope you are not too tired and your feet are not too sore.
Hugs from Alice and Abbie too.

FlipIt!…That is a great type of card, we here just love it!…snorkel!…There is some paw-writing I cannot decipher, but it does not matter – its the thought that counts….heh!heh!…I bet a bunch of youse are lefties!

Alone!…Since I am alone, everyone here is asleep too, I just wanted to put paw to keyboard and say how amazing our Giant is. The race he and the A-Team went through this year is nothing but incredible and I for one am beyond impressed with Our Team and their ability to over-come major obstacles…wheeze!…It is almost super-human the way The Giant survived the whole race. Junior was help and no-help during this quest…sniff!…Hopefully he will find a full-time girlfriend and quiet down for pities sake…grunt!.. The thing is, I am very proud of The Giant and The A-Team and what they accomplished in The Last Big Race this year. I cannot believe I am so lucky to know these guys. They are my heroes and I am very proud to know all of them. One day hopefully my friend will meet them in paw and person…heh!!

Thank you for all the kind words and more. I hope you will indulge me a little more as I get other pictures in. It was just such a magical day. In answer to the question of how long my girls will be here, Angie lives here and Niki is still much too sick to go home, kind of a mixed blessing. When she went to the ER they scanned her with a Kat, which was clear, but her head is still very painful. The strangest thing is that she has a black eye in the corner next to her nose. Nose is fine, it just looks like a big multi-colored mascara smudge. She just headed off to bed with a bag of ice on her head. Hoping tomorrow will be better.

Riö: We here are in total agreement. The Giant is our hero and so are Rebecca and the team. It is unbelievable what they have accomplished. We are proud to call them friends.
ML, You and your girls take some time to rest and regain your strength. You have been through a lot this past month and have handled it with courage and love.